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- From: lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex)
- Subject: Re: System 6.0.1 Ethernet and MS-DOS FST
- Message-ID: <47pm7ad.lunatic@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 21:47:00 GMT
- Organization: Netcom; Renegade User
- References: <13769@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- In article <13769@mindlink.bc.ca> Herbert_Fung@mindlink.bc.ca (Herbert Fung) writes:
- >I found this on my User Group BBS and I thought I'd share it with you all:
- >
- >Apple publicly announces MS-DOS FST for Apple IIGS
- >A2 CENTRAL SUMMER CONFERENCE 1992 ("KANSASFEST"), KANSAS CITY, MO., U.S.A.,
- >1992 JUL 23 (A2 ON GENIE) -- Apple publicly announced today that they are
- >working on an MS-DOS File System Translator (FST) for the Apple IIGS.
- [...]
- >
- >Herbert Fung
- >MindLink!
- >British Columbia, Canada
-
- _
- (_
- __)omeone wasn't very nice and left the attributes off of that
- (they messed up the formatting, as well). It came from GEnie, and I
- wrote it. Any questions as to what I saw and/or heard, just post them
- here.
-
- ][ talked to Greg Branche after the System 6.0 session the following
- morning. It turns out that the MS-DOS FST is based largely on the
- ProDOS FST! Greg started work on the MS-DOS FST as a side project,
- after he had already transferred out of the Apple II division. Once he
- got it to a certain point, he turned over the code to Dave Lyons. They
- haven't even really started on the write portion, yet. The big problem
- with writing to MS-DOS disks is forked files. There are currently two
- or three completely different methods that are used to store Mac
- forked files on MS-DOS volumes, and they don't know if they want to
- choose one of those or try something else (there simply is no standard,
- and it doesn't look like there's going to _be_ one).
- _
- (_
- __)ince the Atari ST uses a disk format almost identical to MS-DOS
- with a few variations, Greg said it's likely the MS-DOS FST could read
- Atari ST disks, as well, but he didn't have any ST disks to try out on
- it (if I can scare up some Atari disks I think I'll run over to Monroe
- 4 and see if Dave wants to try 'em out). I mentioned Amiga disks, but
- nothing conclusive was decided about them.
-
- |)
- |\ight now, the MS-DOS FST uses file name/file type translation
- that is identical to (and taken from) the High Sierra/ISO 9660 FST.
- For example, FILENAME.TXT is translated into a text file. I suggested
- assigning new aux types in the $E0 file type to certain common archive
- types, such as .ARC and .ZIP, but they said they didn't want to do
- anything with aux types, right now, just file types. Of course, anyone
- with the GS/OS Reference can look in the chapter on the High Sierra
- FST to get the data on Map Tables and create a new Map Table for the
- MS-DOS FST (like assigning .DOC files to text files, as well).
-
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